A hand-made sign declares no vacancies at the Catholic Cemetery in Hyderabad. Africa and Asia are the continents that will see the fastest urban population growth in the next 40 years, a U.N. report said earlier this year, noting that India and China are leading the surge.

Villagers fill the surrounding hillsides watching as rescue workers pick through the wreckage of a school bus that ran off the road and plunged into a gorge during a picnic trip. A teacher and a student were killed and 51 others injured.

Women mourn over the coffin of a relative at the Potocari memorial complex near Srebrenica, where thousands gathered Wednesday for the mass burial of 520 bodies to mark the 17th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre.

A computer-simulated image of gas from a star that is ripped apart by tidal forces as it falls into a black hole. Some of the gas also is being ejected at high speeds into space. Using observations from telescopes in space and on the ground, astronomers gathered the most direct evidence yet for this violent process: a supermassive black hole shredding a star that wandered too close.

Pictures in the News | July 11, 2012

Wednesday’s Pictures in the News begins in Spain, where a bloodied woman is detained by riot police during a demonstration by coal miners in Madrid. The miners were protesting government subsidy cuts to their industry. Staying in Europe, revelers fall to the ground in the path of charging bulls in the annual running of the bulls at the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, Spain; a fan holds an anti-doping placard as riders pass by during the 10th stage of the Tour de France cycling race; and players keep their eye on the ball during a beach volleyball tournament in Berlin.

In India, Kashmiri villagers watch as rescue workers search the wreckage of a bus that plunged into a gorge while on a school trip, killing a teacher and a student and injuring 51 others; in Hinduism’s holiest city, Varanasi, devotees bathe at the River Ganges in the early morning; and in Hyderabad, a sign is posted indicating there is no space available for new graves at the Catholic Cemetery, an indication of India’s continuing rapid population growth.